One of the United States’ top military officials arrives in Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow as Washington maintains its largest military deployment in the Caribbean in decades, and as questions about the extent of US operations near the country’s territory remain unanswered.

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Dan Caine. is expected to meet with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to discuss the two nations’ “strong bi-lateral relationship, strengthening regional stability, and regional unity on the vital importance of countering illicit trafficking and transnational criminal organizations,” according to the Embassy.

Caine’s touch down in T&T will occur amid a reportedly scheduled visit to Puerto Rico and to at least one of several US warships stationed in the Caribbean as part of an ongoing military build-up in the region that began in September.